Ever since I first read the words, I’ve been fascinated by the opening verse of the Gospel of John: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." This has always ...

Since the advent of public schools, education commentators and reformers have perennially called attention to the challenges encountered by newcomers to school teaching. Although elementary and ...

This story comes from our special January 2021 issue, “The Beginning and the End of the Universe.” Click here to purchase the full issue. For 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the cosmos was a hot, ...

To say that we don’t understand the earliest moments of the universe would be an understatement. Indeed, the first second after the Big Bang featured not only the most extreme conditions ever ...

Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in the forbidden fruit sees them driven out; Cain ...